Bottled up
When it comes to the proposed “Iowa Better Bottle Bill,” as with almost every other controversy to come before the legislature, there are two sides to every story. In this [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Cover Story
Posted April 17, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Sharecropper’s grandson Braley fights for plain-speaking federal government
Politicians looking to yarn folksy images often talk of being plain-speaking, just-folks fellows. Bruce Braley, who grew up in Brooklyn, Iowa, takes that angle a step further. He authored a [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… City of Des Moines
Amount: $631 To: Bankers Trust Company For: Network engineer job posting on careerbuilder.com ($419) and Monster ($212). Amount: $67.47 To: Hy-Vee For: The purchase of refreshments for Coffee and [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Art News
‘The New Fangled Mirth of Spring’
After a longer-than-usual winter, Shakespeare’s “new fangled mirth of spring” will be appropriately celebrated around central Iowa’s art scene. For the first time, Des Moines Art Center’s (DMAC) Iowa Artists’ [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Rap Sheet
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! Published arrest charges are obtained from official law enforcement records, which are available to the public. All who are charged are innocent until [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Geek Chic
Cable a la carte
The cable television industry is capitalism at its most corrupt. Outside of refusing to partake, cable and satellite subscribers have close to zero recourse in bringing down the cost of [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Belly Up To...
Hot and spicy at Vision Night Club
Latin culture can be so sexy and addictive, it’s like a drug. After only a week of being back in Des Moines after an exotic stay in Puerto Rico, I [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Good Bad Ugly
The good The 2013 Fight for Air Climb took place in downtown Des Moines last week to benefit the American Lung Association in Iowa, and 1,100 people climbed for the [...]
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Posted April 16, 2013in Uncategorized
It’s not about guns, it’s about mental health
You may smile at the brevity, but here goes: Pencils don’t fail tests, hammers don’t build houses, cars don’t drive drunk. There are all kinds of laws on how to [...]
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